Practitioner Yang Guang in Changchun Is Cruelly Tortured and Imprisoned in the "Naked Area" of Jilin Prison

2004-12-28

Yang Guang is a Falun Dafa practitioner in his fifties from Changchun City, Jilin Province. Because he upheld his belief in Falun Dafa, authorities illegally sentenced him to a long prison term. The seventh office of the Changchun Police Department attempted to extort a confession from him by cruelly torturing him. Police beat and tortured him, and eventually broke his right leg. Mr. Yang's thigh bone became numb and he was paralysed. Police carried Yang on a stretcher when they moved him to the Jilin Prison and put him in the Elderly and Disabled area of the prison. His right leg is paralysed, and his toes have festered. Though he is in his fifties, Mr. Yang looks very old and terribly thin, with a head of grey hair. He has now completely lost his ability to look after his own daily needs.

Authorities have recently imprisoned Mr. Yang in the "Naked Area" of the prison, where they do not allow him to wear any pants. Because the authorities paralysed the lower half of his body, some inmates made a small wheelchair-like cart for Mr. Yang to sit on and go to the bathroom with. The small cart is made of wood, a few iron rods, and four wheels; in the middle there is a washbowl-shaped hollow circle for him to defecate through. Every time Mr. Yang needs to go to the restroom, inmates push him there and leave him unattended. Since the cart is made with wood on all four sides, Mr. Yang cannot wipe himself, which is terribly smelly and miserable. All year long, he was forced to live in this "Naked Area" with inmates made psychotic with torture, and with inmates who had completely lost their ability to live independently. These living conditions are horrible. Mr. Yang has only 60 centimetres (about 24 inches) of space to sleep in, and he is fed terrible food. When it is his turn to take a bath, he is left in the bathroom without help, and with only a shower hose to randomly spray his body.

All kind-hearted people around the world: please reach out your hands and save this innocent and good person.